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Old September 16th, 2000, 01:10 AM
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I'm curious about MacOS X and its Unix-based platform. Does this mean Unix programs will run on MacOS X? What about Linux programs?
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yes, however, Libc and other UNIX libs and programs will need to be ported. Once this has been done, it will be a matter of modifying the source code a little and recompiling for the PPC architecture.
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